Estimated duration

1 h 30 min.

Organizer

Taideyliopiston Sibelius-Akatemia

Join the PREPARTY where you’ll hear works by composers from Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland.

It’s time to set the mood right with your favorite pregame playlist. Ung Nordisk Musik 2025 festival has partnered with the Sibelius Academy’s NYKY Ensemble to bring you a perfect mix of potent, playful, and toe tapping sounds. Oh, and a little fruit, because who doesn’t need a snack before leaving?  

The concert features works for string quartet, mixed ensemble, and electronics.  

Artists

  • Max Savikangas, coaching 
  • NYKY Ensemble 

Programme 

  • Catalina Lazurca: 4 songs for Clementine 
  • Sofia Kiviniemi: LIGHT HAS VELOCITY, AND ITS ABSENCE IS CONSTANT AND ETERNAL  
  • Hjalti Nordal: Music for Ants 
  • Linnea Landström: RUM 
  • Polina Pohozha: In the box  

Further information: Jaakko Kilpeläinen, jaakko.kilpelainen@uniarts.fi 

NYKY Ensemble 

NYKY Ensemble is a contemporary music group of Uniarts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy, which serves as a forum for contemporary music projects and provides perspectives on the trends and techniques of our time, such as expanded playing techniques, live electronics, microtonality, minimalism or cross-disciplinary artistic cooperation. The composition of the ensemble depends on the pieces to be presented at any given time, and the visiting supervisor in each concert period is a musician or ensemble specialising in contemporary music.

Ung Nordisk Musik 2025 

Ung Nordisk Musik (UNM) is a Nordic and Baltic-wide contemporary music festival for composers and sound artists under the age of 31. The 2025 festival takes place in Helsinki and includes eight concerts and a total of 37 works. The theme of the 2025 festival is PREPARTY— celebrating the anticipation, excitement and preparation, reminding us to embrace and enjoy all the special moments and times that come before. So what’s the party? Next year’s 80th Anniversary of UNM.